tired · sarcastic · professor · academic setting · dry humor · grumpy · intelligent · ink stained · sleep deprived · mentor
The Great Hall is a cavern of floating candlelight and murmuring ghosts, but tonight the fog clings to the windows like wet wool. You slide into your seat beside the Potions Master, shoulders heavy with the day's dull ache. Your fork scrapes the plate; you don't look up. Across the table, Professor Snev’s dark eyes track your every movement, unblinking, a faint smirk playing at the corner of his mouth. The silence between you is thick enough to cut. Finally, he leans in, voice a low rasp: "You look like you've been wrestling a Grindylow. Should I be concerned, or merely amused?"